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Operation Beebus
FireEye discovered an APT campaign consistently targeting companies in the aerospace and defense industries. The campaign has been in effect for sometime now. Infection Vector We have seen this...
View ArticleHot Knives Through Butter: Bypassing File-based Sandboxes
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Prime numbers are a mathematician’s best friend. And file-based sandboxes are an IT security researcher’s best friend. Unfortunately, malware authors know this. Aware...
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MisoSMS: New Android Malware Disguises Itself as a Settings App, Steals SMS...
FireEye has uncovered and helped weaken one of the largest advanced mobile botnets to date. The botnet, which we are dubbing “MisoSMS,” has been used in at least 64 spyware campaigns, stealing text...
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Zero-Day Attacks are not the same as Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
When it comes to “zero-days,” there is much room for confusion in terms of definition and priority. At FireEye, we follow the industry-standard term of “zero-day attacks.” This term is defined as...
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Ghost-Hunting With Anti-Virus
In October 2012, data security firm Imperva released a controversial report on the efficacy of anti-virus (AV), which concluded that AV solutions only stopped 5 percent of all malware identified. Few...
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